Mary's Life Adventure: i have less than 2 months left...whoa

School updates:
School's going well. For once, I didn't have a ton of work due in the past week or so and had a chance to catch up on some other stuff that needed to be done, although that will change after break. I finally heard back from my professor from last semester, and he said he's going to start looking at and revising my paper (on globalization and happiness) for publication. I'm excited about that. I'm going to do a paper on a similar topic, but in a different area/different focus for another class this semester dealing with civil society presence in peace processes and how that relates to happiness.
Work is also going well. I'm submitting my final proposal for the leadership portfolio I've been working on developing this week for my boss to present at the faculty meeting next month, so that's pretty cool. We have a lot of events coming up in the next month or so too. A diversity in the workplace lecture and workshop, then our exemplary leader conference. Colleen Rowley, from the cover of Time Magazine a couple years ago is coming. She was recognized as being the FBI whistleblower after 9/11. She seems like a pretty awesome lady. It's against her personal code of ethics to accept awards or honorariums, so we decided to get rid of the whole award thing, and turn it into a lecture series.

Life & Everything Else:
I started applying for jobs and posting my resume places last week. I've posted my resume on USAJobs and Abt Associates, and applied for a research assistant position at the Brookings Institution within their Global Economy and Development program. I'm also going to apply to Chemonics Entry Level Professionals program. I'm sure there will be a lot of other places in the next couple weeks.
Fun stuff in the past couple weeks...we had a mardi gras party here, went out for my friend Becky's birthday, hung out with the neighbors a couple times. One of them was the music director for a high school music so his roommate and I went to see that this past weekend. It was some musical called Children of Eden, and it was pretty good.
Spring break is this coming week. I'm heading home Friday, then Liz and Lisa are coming back to Pittsburgh with me Tuesday! Can't wait =)

Becky & I out for her birthday